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When talking about the Enlightenment, ornithology is seldom the first topic of conversation. Still, Enlightenment and ornithology converge in one important respect, that of abundance. In our time, new-wave ornithologists have renewed their faith in eighteenth-century expectations for the discovery...

Collection of essays including Joyce Adler's previously unpublished essay on Harris's cross-cultural dialogue with Melville, and a substantial autobiographical essay by Wilson Harris.

Published in 1892, this book tells the story of a young man Kendric Lane leaving Liverpool to find his uncle in Canada, and meets his cousin brother Rayel who holds the power of reading minds and detect truth and lies then set it into paintings... (Google Books)

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This book is a comprehensive account of how the Jews became a diaspora people. The term 'diaspora' was first applied exclusively to the early history of the Jews as they began settling in scattered colonies outside of Israel-Judea during the time of the Babylonian exile; it has come to express the...

This reissue, first published in 1971, provides a brief historical account of the Theory of Logical Types; and describes the problems that gave rise to it, its various different formulations (Simple and Ramified), the difficulties connected with each, and the criticisms that have been directed against...

A collection of short stories and essays by Washington, written while he was based in Europe. Stories include: The Great Unknown, The Hunting Dinner, The Adventure of My Uncle, The Adventure of My Aunt, The Bold Dragoon, or the Adventure of My Grandfather, The Adventure of the German Student,...

**Traditional Chinese Edition** Now you can read books in Chinese that are fun and accelerate your language learning. Every book is carefully written to use only Mandarin Companion: New graded readers for a new generation of Chinese learners. Now you can read book in Chinese that are fun and accelerate...

Classic / American English Rip Van Winkle walks into the mountains one day and meets some strange old men. He comes home twenty years later. One dark night, Ichabod Crane is riding home and sees a man on a black horse behind him. The man has no head. Are there ghosts in these stories? What do you think?

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: I rose softly, slip ed on my clothes, opened the door sudden y, and beheld one of the most beautiful little fairy groups that a painter could imagine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds...

Born in 1920 in Greensboro, North Carolina, Junius Scales, whose great-uncle had been governor of the state, grew up in the privileged environment of his family’s estate. The only black people he knew were the servants. Wanting to improve the lot of workers, mainly African-American, he joined the...

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. Contents Chronicle of Wolfert's Roost -- Sleepy Hollow...

I was born among romantic scenery, in one of the wildest parts of the Hudson, which at that time was not so thickly settled as at present. My father was descended from one of the old Huguenot families that came over to this country on the revocation of the edict of Nantz. He lived in a style of easy,...

The “father of the American short story” published this enormously popular book in 1855. Wolfert’s Roost is collection of fables—including whimsical Spanish romances and scenes from around Westchester County—that were originally published in the Knickerbocker Magazine.